CVE Alert: CVE-2025-5142

Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2025-5142

The Simple Page Access Restriction plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.31. This is due to missing nonce validation and capability checks in the settings save handler in the settings.php script. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to (1) enable or disable access protection on all post types or taxonomies, (2) force every new page/post to be public or private, regardless of meta-box settings, (3) cause a silent wipe of all plugin data when it’s later removed, or (4) to conduct URL redirection attacks via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Affected Endpoints:

No affected endpoints listed.

Published Date:

5/30/2025, 10:15:25 AM

⚠️ CVSS Score:

Exploit Status:

Not Exploited

EPS Score: 0.00012 | Ranking EPS: 0.01195

References:

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-page-access-restriction/tags/1.0.31/includes/admin/settings/settings.php#L16
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3300680/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-page-access-restriction/#developers
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/657e2a4d-7e10-495d-8352-1adc0cb89e83?source=cve

Recommended Action:

No proposed action available. Please refer to vendor documentation for updates.

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